Nicole Gorfer

Nicole has been with global Swiss healthcare company Roche for over 14 years in various national, regional and global leadership roles and functions. Currently, she leads a team as Global Head Communications & Channel Excellence for Centralised and Point of Care Diagnostics, the largest business division within Roche's Diagnostics operations. Nicole was heading Roche’s Communications and Public Affairs departments in Austria and Germany before directing Global Internal and External Communications and Global Pharma Communications for Roche’s headquarter in Basel, Switzerland. She started her career working for public relations agencies and worked for the pharmaceutical company Hexal/Sandoz as Head Communications before joining Roche. Nicole holds a university degree in International Business Administration, an Advanced Studies Master’s degree in Public Relations and an Executive Certificate for Advocacy in International Affairs. Next to her EACD Board member role, she also serves as an Advisory Board member for the Center for Corporate Reporting (CCR), Zurich.